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I'm curious if this would trip a GFCI when you touched the lid.

People often judge whether they will get shocked based on resistance, but humans are also capacitors. The casing of a macbook is a machined aluminum frame which will act as one plate in a capacitor. Your hand is the other plate. Unlike DC, AC passes through capacitors.



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